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Voyage de la terre australe par Mr. Sadeur. : Avec ses avantures dans la découverte de ce pays jusques icy inconnu & les particularités du sejour qu'il y fit pendant trente-cinq ans & son retour. Contenant les coutumes et les moeurs des Australiens, leurs religions, leurs exercices, leurs études, leurs guerres, les animaux particuliers de ce pays & toutes les raretés curieuses qui s'y trouvent

by: Foigny, Gabriel de, approximately 1630-1692

Publication date: 1695

Topics: Voyages, Imaginary, Imprint 1695

Publisher: A Lyon : Chez Jean-Bapt. & Nicolas de Ville, ruë Merciere, à la Sçience

Collection: jcbfrench; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: French

Item Size: 576.0M

Jacques Sadeur is the pseudonym of Gabriel de Foigny

First printed in Vannes [i.e. Geneva] 1676, under title: La terre australe connue

The present edition, however, follows the text of the Paris, 1692, edition which was printed under title: Les avantures de Jacques Sadeur

An imaginary voyage which compares commodities of America to those found in an imaginary land

Signatures: A-L¹² (A1 verso blank) M¹² (-M12) (M11 verso blank)

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials

Cf. Storer, M.E. Foigny, 143-147

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700

European Americana

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf